Collecting Ancient Europe
National Museums and the search for European Antiquities in the 19th-early 20th century
Edited by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz | 2020
In order to understand our past, we need to understand ourselves as archaeologists and our discipline. This volume presents recent research into collecting practices of European Antiquities by national museums, institutes and individuals during the…
Heritage Education
Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum: A View from Teacher Practice
Eldris Con Aguilar | 2020
This book compiles the results of a doctoral research study that sought to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social studies. To this end, the questions focused on…
Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes
Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba
Jana Pešoutová | 2019
This book presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492. By combining data from critical historical analyses and ethnographic fieldwork,…
Matters of Belonging
Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe
Edited by Wayne Modest, Nicholas Thomas, Doris Prlić & Claudia Augustat | 2019
Matters of Belonging brings to the foreground critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. This book emerges from…
Resonant Histories
Pacific artefacts and the voyages of HMS Royalist 1890-1893
Alison Clark with contributions by Eve Haddow & Christopher Wright | 2019
This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artefacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collection is indicative not…
Pacific Presences - Volume 1
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of…
Pacific Presences - Volume 2
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of…
Collecting Ancient Europe
National Museums and the search for European Antiquities in the 19th-early 20th century
Edited by Luc W.S.W. Amkreutz | 2020
In order to understand our past, we need to understand ourselves as archaeologists and our discipline. This volume presents recent research into collecting practices of European Antiquities by national museums, institutes and individuals during the…
Heritage Education
Memories of the Past in the Present Caribbean Social Studies Curriculum: A View from Teacher Practice
Eldris Con Aguilar | 2020
This book compiles the results of a doctoral research study that sought to gain insight into how indigenous heritage is represented in the school curriculum for social studies. To this end, the questions focused on…
Indigenous Ancestors and Healing Landscapes
Cultural Memory and Intercultural Communication in the Dominican Republic and Cuba
Jana Pešoutová | 2019
This book presents new interpretations of current healing practices in Cuba and the Dominican Republic juxtaposed against the European colonization of the Caribbean after 1492. By combining data from critical historical analyses and ethnographic fieldwork,…
Matters of Belonging
Ethnographic Museums in a Changing Europe
Edited by Wayne Modest, Nicholas Thomas, Doris Prlić & Claudia Augustat | 2019
Matters of Belonging brings to the foreground critical practices within ethnographic museums in relation to their diverse stakeholders, with a special focus on collaboration with artists and differently constituted, self-identified communities. This book emerges from…
Resonant Histories
Pacific artefacts and the voyages of HMS Royalist 1890-1893
Alison Clark with contributions by Eve Haddow & Christopher Wright | 2019
This book explores a complex relational assemblage, a collection of 1481 Pacific artefacts brought together by Captain Edward Henry Meggs Davis, during the three voyages of HMS Royalist between 1890-1893. The collection is indicative not…
Pacific Presences - Volume 1
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of…
Pacific Presences - Volume 2
Oceanic Art and European Museums
Edited by Lucie Carreau, Alison Clark, Alana Jelinek, Erna Lilje & Nicholas Thomas | 2018
Hundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of…
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